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PST900: RGB-Thermal Calibration, Dataset and Segmentation Network
PST900: RGB-Thermal Calibration, Dataset and Segmentation Network
Shreyas S. Shivakumar Neil Rodrigues Alex Zhou Ian D. Miller Vijay Kumar Camillo J. Taylor
Abstract
In this work we propose long wave infrared (LWIR) imagery as a viable supporting modality for semantic segmentation using learning-based techniques. We first address the problem of RGB-thermal camera calibration by proposing a passive calibration target and procedure that is both portable and easy to use. Second, we present PST900, a dataset of 894 synchronized and calibrated RGB and Thermal image pairs with per pixel human annotations across four distinct classes from the DARPA Subterranean Challenge. Lastly, we propose a CNN architecture for fast semantic segmentation that combines both RGB and Thermal imagery in a way that leverages RGB imagery independently. We compare our method against the state-of-the-art and show that our method outperforms them in our dataset.